Short Story Of An Hour Irony

When Josephine told that Brently has died, Louise cries rather than senseless, as she knows many other women would do. Her reaction shows that she is an emotional, demonstrative, and impassioned woman. At the beginning of the story, its focused-on Mrs. Mallard’s fragility. She is cast as a weak hearted woman, lonely. In the text, “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the new of her husband’s death,” (Chopin 169). Mrs. Mallard is not a strong person with heart failure. Louise Mallard is speaking of her husband, which indicates that her husband was the more dominate in

Kate Chopin 's the "Story of an Hour" includes a vast amount of literary devices. Irony, foreshadowing, personification, imagery, symbolism, metaphor and repetition are some of the major literary techniques used by Chopin within this short story about a woman named Mrs. Mallard. Although the story covers only one hour in the life of the main character, the use of these various literary techniques present the theme of the story to the reader in a very entertaining manner.

The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin, tells of one hour, and the last, of the life of Louise Mallard. Through the story there are many cases of irony as a well several motifs and themes, but especially there is symbolism. In the Story of an Hour, the two main uses of symbolism were Louise Mallard’s heart trouble to the open window in her room when she comes to realize her freedom.

Nevertheless, Kate Chopin uses two types of irony in “The Story of an Hour” to reflect her views. Situational irony refers to the opposite of what is supposed to happen, and dramatic irony occurs when the reader knows something that the rest of the characters in the story do not know. The irony in this short story makes the reader understand that the unexpected happens in life.

In Kate Chopin’s, “The Story of an Hour,” a dynamic story takes place in a short amount of time. The story begins with the protagonist, Louise Mallard, being told that her husband, Brently Mallard, has died from a railroad disaster. She grieves for a while and then goes upstairs to her room. She stares out an open window until she realizes that she is finally free. Liberated by her newfound freedom, Mrs. Mallard celebrates. Unfortunately, Mrs. Mallard’s freedom is snatched away from her in a matter of moments because Mr. Mallard was nowhere near the railroad disaster, and he is alive. Once Mrs. Mallard sees Mr. Mallard alive, she dies from a heart attack. The main reason that “The Story of an Hour” can have a plot that develops in such a short time frame is because the story has an immense feel of irony from the first line to the last. “The Story of an Hour” uses all three types of irony, situational, dramatic, and verbal, to tell a captivating story.

In Kate Chopin’s short story “Story of an Hour”, Irony, or the expression of meaning that traditionally indicates the contrary of what is expected, plays a huge role in deciphering the theme and underlying motifs of the story that takes the reader through the hour of Mrs. Mallard’s life after her husband supposedly dies. Through Irony, Kate Chopin effectively portrays the forbidden joy of independence (SparkNotes Editors). The theme is portrayed by the author’s emphasis on situational irony, dramatic irony, oppression, and repression throughout the story.

It seems as if Chopin ends the story at its climax when stating “Someone was opening the front door with latchkey. It was Brently mallard…” (line 19). Mr. Mallard is dead...but he isn't. “Brently Mallard friend Richard should be reprimanded for the false information” (Smith 2011). Although it wasn’t his fault he should’ve done more research to come to such an abrupt conclusion. Situational irony also came about during the reading of this short story. For example, when the audience finds out that Brently Mallard is the one that lives at the end the story while Louise Mallard dies from heart disease. All the way until the end it was Brently Mallard that was the one that died or expected to die, coming to a conclusion of it being the other way around rather Lousie Mallard than him is indeed situational irony. Chopin reveals on last variation of irony and that is dramatic irony. In one of the last lines of the short story Chopin says, “When the doctors came they said she had ide of heart disease – of the joy that kills” (line 19) Mrs. Mallard dies from the shock of seeing her husband. The doctors say she died from "the joy that kills." We know Mrs. Mallard is nowhere near full of joy, knowing her husband is alive

Kate Chopin’s famous play, “The Story of an Hour, is an American based writer/author tells the story of an estrange marriage between Mr. and Mrs. Mallard. Mrs. Louise Mallard receive the horrible news of her husband’s death. This may have been a tragic event to some, yet it was a day of redemption and new life to Louise. Mrs. Louise Mallard is the main character of the story. Mrs. Mallard’s character, is described as a liberal of what is abnormal in her time. She began to plan a future without her husband. She began to envision, which was forbidden for a woman to develop self-influenced identity. Mrs. Mallard’s inner soul was crying to be released from the bondage Mr. Mallard has bestowed upon her. The character was symbolized as a reborn

In the short story, Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin chronicles the short journey of a woman who has recently learned of the death of her husband from a railroad accident. Kate Chopin is known for her stories which revolve around women and the world from their perspective, and Story of an Hour is no exception. As a writer, Chopin utilizes and employs many rhetorical devices to add emotion and depth to her world. Though Story of an Hour is riddled with rhetorical devices in almost every sentence, the two that tend to stand out the most are the use of irony and foreshadowing.

Mallard's weak heart symbolizes how women were perceived as fragile. Due to this, family and doctors treat her gently with the news, and “…great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death” (Chopin). Others assume that her husband dying would be a traumatizing event. However, she feels quite opposite. Mrs. Mallard feels liberated, as if the window to her new life had finally opened. She was free from the restriction of marriage. However, when she realizes her husband survived the train crash, the shock kills her. Mrs. Mallard dies of disappointment, not joy, as the window to her new life free of the restraint of marriage becomes slammed shut as her husband opens the door. Chopin could have easily ended the story on her short lived moment of happiness, but chose not to, as to represent a greater meaning. An entire life cycle takes place throughout the story, represented similarly to the way an hour takes place on a clock. Ms. Mallard, caught in a restraining marriage is freed by the news of the death of her husband, welcomed into the start of her new life. However, when her husband is found to be alive, her new life has lost what it needs to continue, resulting in her death. Chopin chose to kill Louise because the brief moment of happiness and relief that Louise felt for a moment was not a reality for women in this time period. Chopin uses the death of Ms. Mallard to illustrate how desperate women felt at the time, as a happy ending was often not the

“The Story of an Hour”, a story that portrays a new side about marriage which is not known to everyone in the 1890s. Mrs. Mallard, the wife of Brently Mallard, heard the tragic news about her husband's death. She became sad and cried in the sorrow of losing her husband, but soon experienced the joy of being free. As the time goes by she sees her husband walk in the house and dies of losing freedom again. In “The Story of an Hour”, the author Kate Chopin depicts Louise's dream of achieving the forbidden freedom through the use of point of view, symbolism, repetition, dramatic irony, and situational irony, to convey the meaning of the story.

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is a wonderful short story bursting with many peculiar twists and turns. Written in 1894, the author tells a tale of a woman who learns of her husband’s death but comes to find pleasure in it. The elements Kate Chopin uses in this story symbolize something more than just the surface meaning. In less than one thousand one hundred words, Kate Chopin illustrates a deeper meaning of Mrs. Mallard’s marriage through many different forms of symbolism such as the open window in the bedroom, Mrs. Louise Mallard’s heart trouble, and Chopin’s physical description of Mrs. Mallard.

“The Story of an Hour” is a story that was set in the late 19th century written by Kate Chopin. She uses irony to present an unheard view of marriage, while she incorporates symbols and imagery. The story is initially written to have you think that poor Louise, having heart trouble, learns of the devastating news that her husband has been tragically killed. Thinking that Louise is heartbroken by the death of her husband, you see that she strangely says “free! Body and soul free!” (525) You are intrigued to know why Louise would be joyful seeing that her husband has died. By the end of the story you see the irony that she doesn’t die of happiness, she dies of sorrow knowing that she isn’t free anymore. In “The Story of an Hour,” Kate Chopin uses strong irony, symbols and imagery to emphasize her theme of the unhappiness of women during this time period.

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is a story of irony. Irony is an incongruity between expectations for a situation and what is reality. Chopin uses three forms of irony in her story: situational, verbal, and dramatical in her story.

Kate Chopin was born February 8, 1850 (Wyatt n.p.). She went to a Catholic boarding school at age 5 (Wyatt n.p.). In 1870 at age 20, she married Oscar Chopin and moved to New Orleans where she had five boys and two girls all before she was twenty eight (Wyatt n.p.). Oscar was not an able businessman, so they were forced to move to a small Louisiana parish, where eventually Oscar died of Malaria in 1882 (Wyatt n.p.). In 1884 she moved back in with her mom in St. Louis. Unfortunately her mother died the next year, leaving Katie alone with her children again (Wyatt n.p.). “To support herself and her young family, she began to write”, becoming an immediate success where she eventually wrote The Story of an Hour on April 19, 1894. The well known short story is about Louise Mallard, a wife with a heart condition who finds out her husband has died in a horrible accident. Although her friends think Louise is devastated, she's secretly ecstatic until he walks through the door unharmed causing her to die of a heart attack. Kate Chopin was a